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Many know the Great Orion Nebula (M42) in Orion’s Sword as a bright diffuse nebula — a glowing cloud of cosmic gas illuminated by the Trapezium star cluster. But the Orion Nebula also has a ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars ...

The Orion Nebula is located just 1,500 light-years away, making it the closest large star-forming region to Earth. Easily ...

Astronomers working at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have captured the deepest, most detailed image of the Orion Nebula to date. The team used an infrared instrument called HAWK-I ...

The Horsehead Nebula is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The stunning image is captured by James Webb Space Telescope. The stunning image of NGC 9524 is captured by Hubble Space ...

Take for example the Orion Nebula. Forming the middle "star ... from the 1920s showed that it had features of an emission ...

Get on the horse and ride This week’s large-telescope target is the famous Horsehead Nebula in Orion the Hunter ... This dark protrusion sits in front of emission nebula IC 434, which glows ...

Megeath Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space Telescope image. The recent photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures two of these ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s powerful Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope combined to ...